The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war, sentence 7
In February 2014 about a hundred protesters were killed on and near the Maidan, many by snipers (hidden shooters), and police officers also died; the dead protesters are honoured as the «Heavenly Hundred», and Yanukovych fled to Russia.
Who acts: many snipers, Yanukovych · What happens: kill, hide, die, honour, flee · To what, where: hundred protesters, dead protesters, Russia
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many snipers, Yanukovych), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 February | case |
| 2 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | obl |
| 3 | 2014 | 2014 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 February | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 hundred | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hundred | det |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 protesters | nummod |
| 7 | protesters | protester | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 killed | aux:pass |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 killed | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 honoured | cc |
| 12 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 on | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Maidan | det |
| 14 | Maidan | Maidan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Maidan | punct |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 snipers | amod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 snipers | case |
| 18 | snipers | sniper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 killed | obl:agent |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 shooters | punct |
| 20 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 shooters | amod |
| 21 | shooters | shooter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 snipers | appos |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 shooters | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 officers | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 officers | cc |
| 25 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 officers | compound |
| 26 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 snipers | conj |
| 27 | also | also | ADV | _ | 28 died | advmod |
| 28 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 killed | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 protesters | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 protesters | det |
| 31 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 protesters | amod |
| 32 | protesters | protester | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 honoured | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 honoured | aux:pass |
| 34 | honoured | honour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 killed | advcl |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 « | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Hundred | det |
| 37 | « | « | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 honoured | obl |
| 38 | Heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 » | amod |
| 39 | Hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 honoured | obl |
| 40 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 39 Hundred | punct |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 fled | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 fled | cc |
| 43 | Yanukovych | Yanukovych | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 fled | nsubj |
| 44 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 honoured | conj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 Russia | case |
| 46 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 fled | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | many snipers and police officers | hundred protesters | february | the Maidan obl | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||
| 2 | hide | participle | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | die | past | many snipers and police officers not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | honour | present · passive | the dead protesters | as «; the Hundred obl | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | flee | past | Yanukovych | Russia | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to russia=Initial_Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:history:049-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war.lesson:7.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×6, R7-rel-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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